Dr LAW, Kam Yee    羅金義 博士
Associate Professor
Department of Social Sciences and Policy Studies
Contact
ORCiD
0000-0002-9985-7236
Phone
(852) 2948 7643
Email
kamyee@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Website
https://pappl.eduhk.hk/rich/web/person.xhtml?pid=101907&name=LAW, Kam Yee
Scopus ID
7202563067
Research Interests
Political sociology of East Asian societies
External Appointments
  • Programme Review Panelist (External), Associate of Social Sciences, SPACE Community College, the University pf Hong Kong
  • Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Primary Humanities Curriculum, Curriculum Development Council, Education Bureau
  • External Stakeholder Representative for Social Science Programmes Reaccreditation, University of Wollongong (UOW) College Hong Kong
  • Team Leader, Assessment Panel on General Studies, Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence, Education Bureau
  • Member, Committee on Personal, Social & Humanities Education, Curriculum Development Council, Education Bureau
  • Advisor, Society for Transcultural Studies, Hong Kong
  • External Academic Advisor, Associate of Social Science, Community College of City University.
  • ExCo Member, Hong Kong Asian Studies Association.
  • Editor, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences.
  • Commissioning Editor, Focus of East Asia Book Series, City University of Hong Kong Press.
  • Commissioning Editor, Belt & Road Initiative and Asia Book Series, Chung Hwa Books Co.
  • Commissioning Editor, Hong Kong Experience Book Series, Chung Hwa Books Co.
  • Commissioning Editor. Liberal Studies Mini-Encyclopedia Book Series, Hong Kong: Infolink Publisher.
Personal Profile

Law Kam-yee teaches social sciences in the EdUHK. Before joining the EdUHK, he was associate professor in the Department of Asian & International Studies at City University of Hong Kong, taught East & Southeast Asian Studies for more than ten years. Kam-yee is also a qualified social worker, and associate member of the Hong Kong Professional Counselling Association.

Research Interests
Political sociology of East Asian societies
External Appointments
  • Programme Review Panelist (External), Associate of Social Sciences, SPACE Community College, the University pf Hong Kong
  • Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Primary Humanities Curriculum, Curriculum Development Council, Education Bureau
  • External Stakeholder Representative for Social Science Programmes Reaccreditation, University of Wollongong (UOW) College Hong Kong
  • Team Leader, Assessment Panel on General Studies, Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence, Education Bureau
  • Member, Committee on Personal, Social & Humanities Education, Curriculum Development Council, Education Bureau
  • Advisor, Society for Transcultural Studies, Hong Kong
  • External Academic Advisor, Associate of Social Science, Community College of City University.
  • ExCo Member, Hong Kong Asian Studies Association.
  • Editor, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences.
  • Commissioning Editor, Focus of East Asia Book Series, City University of Hong Kong Press.
  • Commissioning Editor, Belt & Road Initiative and Asia Book Series, Chung Hwa Books Co.
  • Commissioning Editor, Hong Kong Experience Book Series, Chung Hwa Books Co.
  • Commissioning Editor. Liberal Studies Mini-Encyclopedia Book Series, Hong Kong: Infolink Publisher.
Research Outputs
Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Research book or monograph (author)
Wong Ka-ho & Law Kam-yee (2022). Putin's Dream of Russian Empire. Taipei: Independent and Unique.
Wong Ka-ho & Law Kam-yee (2021). Russia's Turn to the East: Rising Power in East Asia?. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Ho Wai-fun & Law Kam-yee (2021). Environmental Protection Policy and Green Life: Hong Kong in International Perspective. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Books.
Wong Ka-ho & Law Kam-yee (2021). The Silk Road Economic Belt, Eurasian Integration and Russia's Revival. Taipei: Independent & Unique.
Law Kam-yee & Chun Wai-sun (2017). Geopolitics of Laos: Bandwagoning or Hedging?. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Kwok Kim and Law Kam-yee (2016). Ethnic Business of South Asians under Lion Rock. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Books.
Law Kam-yee (2011). On the Margins of the Miracle: Political Sociology of Minorities in East Asia. Taipei: Tonsan Books.
Leung Kwan-kwok, Lee Tak-yan & Law Kam-yee (1998). Local Government of the Special Regions in China: A Comparative Study of Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong & Macau. Beijing: Guangbo Dianshi Publishing House.
Chapter in an edited book (author)
Chiu Chi-yeung and Law Kam-yee (2021). Institutionalisation advances Cooperation? Rise and Decline of Hong Kong-Taiwan Relations before and after the Handover. Chen Te-Sheng (Ed.), Interactions between Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau: New Scenario and Change (27-51). Xinbei City (Taiwan): INK Publisher.
Adrian Chi-yeung Chiu & Kam-yee Law (2020). Hong Kong–Taiwan relations in the CY Leung administration: End of Strategic Ambiguity?. Joseph Y. S. Cheng (Ed.), Evaluation of the C. Y. Leung Administration (191-217). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Chiu Chi-yeung & Law Kam-yee (2018). Challenge to China's Belt and Road Initiative in Indo-China: Being Bandwagoned or Hedged?. Law Kam-yee & Chiu Chi-yeung (Eds.), Widening the Spectrum of the Belt & Road Initiative: Difficulties & Challenges (162-178). Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Books.
Chiu Chi-yeung & Law Kam-yee (2018). Widening the Spectrum of the Belt & Road Initiative. Law Kam-yee & Chiu Chi-yueng, Widening the Spectrum of the Belt & Road Initiative: Difficulties and Challenges (2-20). Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Books.
Kam-yee Law (2018). Nationalism in Asia-Pacific: Prejudices and Rationality. Shiping Hua (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia (461-471). New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Lee Kim-ming, Law Kam-yee & Kwok Kim (2017). 1997 Handover and the Change of Integration Spirit among Chinese and South Asian Hongkongers. Law Kam-yee (Ed.), Hong Kong Spirit in Flux: 20 Years after the Handover (167-192). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Kwok Kim & Law Kam-yee (2017). South Asian Small Business under the 'Lion Rock' in Hong Kong. Cheng Yu-shek (Ed.), Hong Kong Nativism and Nativist Consciousness. (282-293). Hong Kong: Contemporary China Research Project, City University of Hong Kong.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2016). Integration Policy and South-Asian Minorities in Hong Kong. Zang Xiaowei (Ed.), Handbook on Minorities in China (383-408). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Kim Kwok & Kam-yee Law (2016). Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: An Analytical Survey. Anna Pratt (Ed.), Ethnic Minorities: Perceptions, Cultural Barriers and Health Inequalities (117-138). New York: Nova Science.
Kim-ming Lee & Kam-yee Law (2016). Hong Kong Chinese ‘Orientalism’: Discourse Reflections on Studying Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong. Anna Pratt (Ed.), Ethnic Minorities: Perceptions, Cultural Barriers and Health Inequalities (81-116). New York: Nova Scinece.
Kwok Kim and Law Kam-yee (2015). Is '1997 Handover' the Turning Point of Ethnic Minorities' Political Participation in Hong Kong?. Cheng Yu-shek (Ed.), New Shape of Political Participation in Hong Kong (193-212). Hong Kong: Contemporary China Research Project, City University of Hong Kong.
Law Kam-yee (2015). Civil Society in a Bird Cage. Zang Xiaowei (Ed.), Understanding Chinese Society (197-210). London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Law Kam-yee (2014). Laos: Eternal Bandwagoning?. Law Kam-yee (Ed.), After the Miracle: Challenges to East Asian Century (230-248). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Kim-ming Lee and Kam-yee Law (2014). Economic Insecurity and Social Protection for Labour: The Limitations of Hong Kong's Adhocism during the Financial Crises. Ka-ho Mok & Maggie Lau (Eds.), Welfare Regimes in Transition: Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China (47-69). London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2014). Colonialism, Sinicization and Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: Social exclusion and barely citizenship. Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin and Kam-yee Law (Eds.), Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific (111-141). London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin & Kam-yee Law (2014). Un/settled Narrations: Nationalism in the Asia-Pacific. Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin & Kam-yee Law (Eds.), Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific (1-8). London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2013). Social Exclusion in the "Pluralistic and Tolerant" Society: Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong. In Law Kam-yee & Cheng Yu-shek (Eds.), On the Chessboard: Donald Tsang's Legacy for C Y Leung (333-358). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Kam-yee Law (2012). Chinese Nationalism in harmony with European imperialism? Historical Representation in the Macao Museum. J. T. H. Lee, V. L. Nedilsky & S. K. Cheung (Eds.), China’s Rise to Power: Conceptions of State Governance (165-179). New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sheh Wai-ting & Law Kam-yee (2012). Two faces of nationalism during China's rise: the political difference of historical representation at the Hong Kong Museum of History and the Macao Museum.. T.F. Hsu and W.N. Lin (Ed.), Building Identity: The making of national museums and identity politics (143-158). Taipei: National Museum of History.
Poon Man-wai and Law Kam-yee (2012). Facilitating teaching by manga and its practice: comparing the feasibility in Hong Kong and Japan. Wong Heung Wah (Ed.), Comics and Animation in Asia: New Perspectives (276-300). Tsinan: Shandong People's Publishing House.
Law Kam-yee (2012). Politics. William S Tay & Alvin Y So (Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary China (23-50). Singapore: World Scientific.
Law Kam-yee (2010). Comic’s Cultural History and Teaching: Reflecting the exclusion of comic by educational institutions in Hong Kong through Japan’s experience. Jiang Bao-Chai (Ed.), Go! To the Mass Society: Life and Culture of the Masses (143-171). Kaohsiung: Liwen Publisher.
Law Kam-yee (2010). 'Tiananmen Massacre' represented in The Times and The New York Times. Cheng Yu-shek & Law Kam-yee (Eds.), That Night at Tiananmen Square -- 1989 China's Pro-democracy Movement in Retrospect and Prospect (283-304). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Law Kam-yee (2009). Chinese Ethnic Minorities on the Margins of the Prosperous China. Wong Yiu-chung & Chan Hor-yung (Eds.), PRC: Sixty Years in Review (65-87). Hong Kong: Cultural Institute of Oriental Humanity Studies.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2009). The Limits of Chinese Transnationalism: The Cultural Identity of Malaysian-Chinese Students in Guangzhou. S. K. Cheung, T. H. Lee & V. L. Nedilsky (Eds.), Marginalization in China: Recasting Minority Politics (237-252). New York, USA: Palgrave MacMillan.
Cheng Man-lung & Law Kam-yee (2009). The Thinking of the Indigenization of Politics in China Mainland. Cheng Yu-shek & Law Kam-yee (Eds.), New Perspectives on Political Science: Chinese Experience & Western Theories (103-140). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2009). Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong are socially excluded in the globalization age. Tom Lansford (Ed.), Global Viewpoints: Immigration (77-88). Detroit, USA: Greenhaven Press.
Law Kam-yee (2009). Leaders' Image: The standard of framing of the American mainstream media. Law Kam-yee & Cheng Yu-shek (Eds.), Changed and Unchanged: Thirty Years of Reform in China (345-356). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Zhao Suisheng, Cui Zhiyuan & Law Kam-yee (2006). Political Studies on Contemporary China in America: Models, Trends, and Paradigms. Cheng Yu-shek & Law Kam-yee (Eds.), New Perspective on Political Science: Western Theories & Chinese Experience (410-434). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
Law Kam-yee (2005). Social Exclusion and Marginality of Malay-Muslims in Singapore. May Tam, Hok Bun Ku & Travis Kong (Eds.), Rethinking and Recasting Citizenship: Social Exclusion and Marginality in Chinese Societies (pp.53-71). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2004). The Economic Development of Hong Kong: Beyond ‘Pure Economic’ Narrative. Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (Eds.), The Economy of Hong Kong in Non-economic Perspectives (xxi-lxxiv). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Law Kam-yee (2004). Finance Capital versus Small-medium Enterprises: Economic Governance of HKSAR after the Asian Crisis. Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (Eds.), The Economy of Hong Kong in Non-economic Perspectives (292-300). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Lynn White & Law Kam-yee (2003). Explanations for China's Revolution at Its Peak. Law Kam-yee (Ed.), The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered: Beyond Purge & Holocaust (1-24). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Law Kam-yee (2001). A Moral Order with ‘No Messiah’ – A Critique on the Ideology behind the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank’s TV Advertisement. Ng Chun-hung & Cheung Chi-wai (Eds.), Reading Hong Kong Popular Cultures 1970-2000 (157-159). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Law Kam-yee & Wong Cheung-wai (2000). Intellectual’s Collective Identity of Modernity: A Review of Hong Kong’s Chinese Social Sciences Journals at the Historical Watershed. Chinese Society of Arts/Social Sciences Journal (ed.), 21st Century Social Sciences Academic Journal and Journal Editing (229-238). Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press.
Law Kam-yee (1997). Deconstructing the Discourse of ‘East Asian Miracle'. Law Kam-yee & Wong Cheung-wai (Eds.), Behind the Miracle: Deconstructing the East Asian Modernization (327-357). Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Edited book (editor)
Law Kam-yee & Chiu Chi-yeung (Eds.) (2018). Widening the Spectrum of the Belt & Road Initiative: Difficulties & Challenges. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Books.
Law Kam-yee (Ed.) (2017). Hong Kong Spirit in Flux: 20 Years after the Handover. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Law Kam-yee & Lui Ho-cheong (Eds.) (2015). Family, Nation, Refugees: Those were the Days in Rennie's Mill. Hong Kong: Infolink.
Law Kam-yee (Ed.) (2014). After the Miracle: Challenges to the East Asian Century. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin & Kam-yee Law (Eds.) (Paperback edition published in 2016) (2014). Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Wong Wai-kwok and Law Kam-yee (Eds.) (2013). 66 Keywords of Taiwan Society. Hong Kong: Infolink.
Law Kam-yee & Cheng Yu-shek (Eds.) (2013). On the Chessboard: Donald Tsang's Legacy for C Y Leung. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Law Kam-yee & Li Hin Wah (Eds.) (2010). 72 Keywords of Global Issues. Hong Kong: Infolink.
Law Kam-yee (Ed.) (2010). 84 Keywords of Contemporary China. Hong Kong: Infolink.
Cheng Yu-shek & Law Kam-yee (Eds.) (2010). That Night at Tiananmen Square -- 1989 China's Pro-democracy Movement in Retrospect and Prospect. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Cheng Yu-shek & Law Kam-yee (Eds.) (2009). New Perspective on Political Science: Chinese Experience & Western Theories. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
Law Kam-yee & Cheng Yu-shek (Eds.) (2009). Changed and Unchanged: Thirty Years of Reform in China. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.
Cheng Yu-shek & Law Kam-yee (Eds.) (2006). New Perspective on Political Science: Western Theories & Chinese Experience. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (Eds.) (2004). The Economy of Hong Kong in Non-economic Perspectives. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Law Kam-yee (Ed.) (2003). The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered: Beyond Purge & Holocaust. New York, USA: Palgrave MacMillan.
Law Kam-yee (Ed.) (1998). China Review 1997. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
Law Kam-yee & Cheng Man-lung (Eds.) (1997). More than a Calamity: Alternative Views on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Taipei: Fengyun Luntan Publisher.
Law Kam-yee & Wong Cheung-wai (Eds.) (1997). Behind the Miracle: Deconstructing the East Asian Modernization. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.

Journal Publications
Publication in refereed journal
Wong Ka-ho & Law Kam-yee (2024). Russia’s Attitude towards the Taiwan Crises since Putin Came to Power. China: An International Journal, 22（1）, 60-84. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/43/article/920958
Adrian Chi-yeung Chiu and Kam-yee Law (2023). Hong Kong–Taiwan Relations from the Handover to the Anti-extradition Law Movement—How Sub-state Diplomacy Has Failed. East Asian Policy, 15(4), 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793930523000338
Chi-yeung Chiu & Kam-yee Law (2023). The Myth of Institutionalizing Hong Kong-Taiwan Relations: 26 Years After the Handover. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 9(1), 65-106.
Wong Ka-ho & Law Kam-yee (2021). South Korea–Russia Rapprochement under Moon’s New Northern Policy: Bringing geo-economy back on agenda?. East Asian Policy, 13(3), 117-131.
Law Kam-yee & Chiu Chi-yeung (2020). How Weak Neighbours Manage their Relationship with China: The Case of Laos. China: An International Journal, 18(3), 133-152.
Kim Kwok, Kim-ming Lee & Kam-yee Law (2018). Multicultural Social Work Practice of South Asian Migrants in Hong Kong. China Journal of Social Work, 11 (1), 56-72.
Adrian Chi-yeung Chiu & Kam-yee Law (2017). Comparing the Cross-Strait Economic Policies of KMT and DPP, 2008-2016: Implications for the Future of Taiwan Politics. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 3(3), 1273-1303.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2016). Importing western values versus indigenization: Social work practice with ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. International Social Work, 59(1), 60-72.
Kwok Kim & Law Kam-yee (2014). Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: Situation and Difficulties. Dongyue Tribune, 35(12), 97-102.
Law Kam-yee (2014). The Red Line over European Colonialism: Comparison of the Macao Museum and the Hong Kong Museum of History after their Return to China. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20(5), 534-555.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2013). Socio-political Embeddings of South Asian Ethnic Minorities’ Economic Situations in Hong Kong. Journal of Contemporary China, 22(84), 984-1005.
Kam-yee Law, Kim-ming Lee & Carol Poon (2013). Challenges to the City Imagineering in Hong Kong: Place Making and Struggle between Globalization and Local Concerns. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies, 7(1), 1-12.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2012). The myth of multiculturalism in 'Asia's World City': Incomprehensive policies for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 5(1), 117-134.
Law Kam-yee & Carol Poon Man-wai (2010). Something other than Entertainment: A comparative study between Japan and Hong Kong on introducing Anime and Manga for classroom. Nihon Gakkan, 13, 56-70.
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2010). The Financial Tsunami, Economic Insecurity and Social Protection in Hong Kong. Development, 53(1), 83-90.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2009). The Myth of Constructing a Greater China Identity: A Case Study of the Malaysian-Chinese in Reforming China. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 11(2), 19-43.
Law Kam-yee (2009). The Portrayal of Chinese Top Party-State Leaders in the American Mainstream News Media, 1978-2008. China Report: A Journal of East Asian Studies, 45(1), 35-51.
Law Kam-yee and Sheh Wai-ting (2009). 'Co-Prosperous' or being marginalized in the prosperous world? Chinese ethnic minorities over the past six decades. Twenty-First Century, 115, 33-43.
Law Kam-yee (2007). The Difficulty of the Mainland-Hongkong Integration in the Perspectives of Post-materialism and Remaking Citizenship. HK & Macau Review, 40, 96-103.
Lee Kim-ming, Wong Hung & Law Kam-yee (2007). Social Polarization and Poverty in a Global City: the Case of Hong Kong. China Report: A Journal of East Asian Studies, 43(1), 1-30.
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2006). Between Political Advantage and Market Allocation: Guangzhou’s Private Entrepreneurs in Market Transition. American Journal of Chinese Studies, 13(1), 53-78.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2006). Citizenship, Economy and Social Exclusion: Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 36(2), 217-242.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2006). The Cultural Logic of Chinese Transnationalism. Intercultural Communication Studies, 15(1), 143-156.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2005). Between China’s Overseas Chinese Policy and Malaysia’s Ethnic Policies. Journal of Societal and Social Policy, 4(3), 51-64.
Lee Kim-ming, Fung Kwok-kin, Agnes Yeung and Law Kam-yee (2005). Inequalities in Accessing Community Services in China. Journal of Societal and Social Policy, 4(1), 51-62.
Law Kam-yee (2004). Search for Roots of Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Politics in Reforming China: Re-evaluation on Mao’s Ideas and Synthesis of the Cultural Revolution. The Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 3(1), 51-75.
Law Kam-yee (2003). The Civic Disobedience of Malay Muslims: The Tudung Incident in Post-September 11 Singapore. Development, 46(1), 107-111.
Law Kam-yee (2003). The Myth of Multiracialism in Post-9/11 Singapore. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 5(1), 51-71.
Law Kam-yee (2000). Indirect Victimisation and the Power Equation: Public Opinion and Alternative View on Macau's Triad Violence. The Police Journal, 73(3), 231-241.
Wong Cheung-wai & Law Kam-yee (2000). The Prewar Social Welfare Programs of the British Hong Kong Government in the Angle of Departmental Report. Journal of Historical Science, 2000(2), 104-113.
Law Kam-yee & Wong Cheung-wai (1999). A Discussion on the ‘Ideology’ of Maneuvering Academic Journal. Journal of Renmin University of China, 78, 108-110.
Law Kam-yee & Wong Cheung-wai (1997). More than a Primitive Imperialism: The Colonial Government and the Social Relief of Hong Kong in the Early 20th Century. Journal of Contemporary China, 16, 513-530.
Leung Kwan-kwok & Law Kam-yee (1997). Fractionalization of Political ‘Party’ System in Hong Kong. Asian Thought & Society: An International Review, 64, 18-60.

Conference Papers
Invited conference paper
Chiu Chi-yeung and Law Kam-yee (2021, December). Laos on the path of the Belt and Road Initiative: No distraction?. International Conference of Perspectives on China Studies in Taiwan and Southeast Asia Countries 2021, organised by Institute of China Studies and Center of China Belt Road Initiative Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei.
Wong Ka Ho & Law Kam-yee (2019, May). Post-Tiananmen Political Change in China and Russia: Different Means to Similar End?. Thirtieth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Incident International Academic Conference on Value Renewal and Path Finding for China's Pro-Democracy Movement, co-organized by the New School for Democracy & Hong Kong Alliance, Taipei, Taiwan.
Adrian Chi-yeung Chiu and Kam-yee Law (2017, November). The Agency of ’Small Nations’ along China's Belt & Road Initiative: The Case of Laos. International Workshop of ’How Peaceful is the Rise of China?’ co-organized by the Graduate School of International Studies & Regional Development at the University of Niigata Prefecture and the Centre for Greater China Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong, Niigata, Japan.
Kwok Kim & Law Kam-yee (2016, December). Ethnic Economy and Social Integration: South Asians in Hong Kong. International Symposium on 'Building an Asian Community of Common Destiny: Opportunities and Challenges', organized by the School of International Studies / Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Law Kam-yee (2014, July). Limitations of Hong Kong Civil Society: A Concise Discussion. Seminar on Comparison of Civil Societies in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Taipei, Taiwan.
Law Kam-yee (2012, April). Social Exclusion in the "Pluralistic and Tolerant" Society: Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong. 7th International Conference on Globalization and Administrative Governance, Kainan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Law Kam-yee (2009, June). An Overview on the Social Development in Hong Kong after the Handover. Paper presented at the Seminar on " Socio-Political Changes in Hong Kong 12 Years after the Handover", Taipei, Taiwan.
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2008, February). Colonialism, sinicization and ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. International Workshop of "(Un)Problematic Multiclturalism and Social Resilience", organized by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Refereed conference paper
Chiu Chiu-yeung & Law Kam-yee (2018, June). China-Laotian Relations: the Challenges of China under the "Belt & Road Initiative". The 118th IRES International Conference on Economics & Social Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
Law Kam-yee (2017, June). Post-Cold War Geopolitics of Laos: Bandwagoning or Hedging. The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2017, Kobe, Japan.
Law Kam-yee (2017, April). Nationalism in Asia-Pacific: Prejudice and Rationality. THE IRES - 180th International Conferences on Economics and Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Kwok Kim & Law Kam-yee (2016, October). Hong Kong Government's Social Governance of Ethnic Economy: Case Study of South Asians' Small Business. The 7th International Conference on Public Management in the 21st Century: Opportunities & Challenges, organized by the University of Macau, Macau.
Kim-ming Lee & Kam-yee Law (2016, May). Integration Policy and Its Implementation for South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong. 2nd International Symposium of Global Cities and Cosmopolitan Dreams, Barcelona, Spain.
Law Kam-yee (2015, November). Educational Problems Encountered by the South-Asian Students in Hong Kong: NGOs' Perspective. International Conference on Educational Innovation: Educational Development and Industry-Academy Cooperation, organized by National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Kim-ming Lee & Kam-yee Law (2015, June). Structural inequalities and social interaction: Assimilation-oriented Integration of Hong Kong South-Asian Populations. The 2015 International Forum – Public Affairs, Social Science and Economics, International Business Academics Consortium, Sapporo, Japan.
Kwok Kim & Law Kam-yee (2014, May). Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: Situation and Difficulties. 2014 Taiwan Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs International Conference "Joint Action: Pursuing Government and Civil Society Collaboration", Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Law Kam-yee & Ho Wai Fun (2014, March). Place Making of a World City versus Local Concern: the Difficulties of Branding Hong Kong through Ten Major Infrastructure Projects. International Conference on Business and Social Sciences 2014, Asia-Pacific Education & Research Association, Tokyo, Japan.
Kim-ming Lee, Kam-yee Law and Kim Kwok (2013, November). Policy formulation, social service NGOs and social integration of the South-Asian populations in Hong Kong. The 2nd International Symposium on Business and Social Sciences, Asia-Pacific Education and Research Association, Osaka, Japan.
Law Kam-yee (2013, April). Economic Crisis and Social Protection for Labors: the dilemma in Hong Kong. Conference of “The prospect of labor relations and human resources under globalization”, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Sheh Wai-ting and Law Kam-yee (2011, November). Contrasting the Political Representation in Macau and Hong Kong Museums after the Handover to China. International Conference "BUILDING IDENTITY: The Making of National Museums & Identity Politics", hosted by National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan.
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2011, July). Socio-Spatial Embeddings of South Asian Ethnic Minorities' Economic Actions in Hong Kong. 19th Biennial New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference, hosted by Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Sheh Wai-ting & Law Kam-yee (2011, June). Two Faces of Nationalism during the Rise of China. paper presented in the International Symposium on “China’s Appeal and its Discontents,” Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong.
Law Kam-yee (2011, May). Legalization of Soccer Gaming in Hong Kong: A Critical Review after a Decade. 2011 Conference of Kinetic and Leisure Enterprises Management, Chienkuo Technology University, Changhua, Taiwan.
Law Kam-yee & Lee Kim-ming (2010, October). City Imagineering of Hong Kong: Place Making and Struggle between Globalness and Local Identity. The 4th International Conference on Public Management in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges, hosted by University of Macau, Macau.
Lee Kim-ming & Law Kam-yee (2010, May). Economic Insecurity and Social Protection in Hong Kong: Active Labor Market Policies Considered. The Annual International Conference 2010, Social Welfare Association of Taiwan, hosted by National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Law Kam-yee (2009, July). Comparing the Political Representation in History Museums at Hong Kong and Macau after Handover to China. The 4th International Conference on The Arts in Society, Venice, Italy.
Law Kam-yee (2009, June). Initial reflection on financial ethics and moral education: Hong Kong young people's malfunction in financial management and materialism. Paper presented at the Conference on " Investment and Financial Management under the Financial Tsunami Cum Job Ethics and Moral Education", organized by Department of Finance, Nanya Institute of Technology, Chungli, Taiwan.
Law Kam-yee & Poon Man-wai (2009, April). Comic and teaching: Comparison of the comic history and education institution between Japan and Hong Kong. Conference on " Go to the Society: Life and Culture of the Masses", hosted by National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Poon Man-wai & Law Kam-yee (2008, December). Japan anime and manga in liberal studies education - An exploratory study of ' Why and why not' in Japan versus Hong Kong. Paper presented at The first International Conference on " Popular Culture and Education in Asia", organized by the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.
Cheng Man-lung & Law Kam-yee (2007, September). Chinese Academic’s Reflection on Indigenization of Politics over the Last Decade. paper presented in the Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Political Science, hosted by I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Law Kam-yee (2006, August). Memories beyond Doctrinaire Identity: The ‘228 Incident’ and the Culture Politics in Taiwan. International Conference on Peace and Reconciliation: In Search of a Common Identity, organized by School of Education and Theology, York St John University College, York, England.


All Other Outputs
Other outputs
Law Kam-yee and Lui Ho Cheong (2017). Story of Tiu Keng Leng. Special lecture presented in the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre of the Antiquities & Monuments Office in the Cultural Services Department, the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Law Kam-yee (2017). Educational Disputies 2016 and Weakness of the Civil Society in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Guest Seminar offered to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Hong Kong.
Law Kam-yee (2016). Political Economy of Laos: Does China Matter?. Guest Seminar offered for the Department of Government & Public Administration, the University of Macau.
Law Kam-yee (2015). Reframing Social Services through Innovation. Speech presented in 'A Power Lunch for NGO Leaders and Social Entrepreneurs', Hong Kong: Social Enterprise Summit.
Law Kam-yee (2015). Constraints of the Civil Society and Political Participation in Hong Kong. Guest Seminar offered to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Hong Kong.
Law Kam-yee (Ed.) (2014). "Special Series: Challenges to the City Transformation in East Asia", The Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 13(1).. London: Routledge.
Kam-yee Law (Ed.) (2012). "Special Series: Asian Little Dragons in the ‘Midlife Crisis’? Challenges to societal policies after the neoliberal ‘miracle’",Journal of Asian Public Policy, 5(1).. London: Routledge.
Law Kam-yee (2010). The Development of China and Education Policy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Education.
Law Kam-yee (2009). The condition of the ethnic minorities in China over the past 60 years. Hong Kong: The Dharmasthiti Group.
Shiping Hua & Kam-yee Law (Eds.) (2003). "Special Series: Utopianism in Chinese Thought", The Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 2(2). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.

Projects
The Oral and Documentary History of the Relations between British Hong Kong and Taiwan, 1949-97
The relations with Taiwan has always been one of the most important external affairs of Hong Kong, given the crucial intermediary role under the reality of cross-Strait relations. Funded by the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, this project will explore Hong Kong-Taiwan relations of different stages through oral, archival and documentary history.
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee

 
Hong Kong - Taiwan relations in the CY Leung administration: End of Strategic Ambiguity?
The relations between Hong Kong and Taiwan have always been strategically ambiguous because of the sensitivity of cross-Strait relations. During the colonial age, through its special status, when cross-Strait relations were strained, the role of Hong Kong was considerably significant. However, 20 years since the handover, Hong Kong’s role has only been partially successful, and the relations between Hong Kong and Taiwan have been limited so far. This project aims at initially exploring the predicament of Hong Kong–Taiwan relations from the Hong Kong perspective during the Leung Chun Ying era.
Project Start Year: 2018, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
An Explorative Study of the Political Economy of Laos and China Rise: Balancing or Bandwagoning?
The conventional scholars on international relations believe that Southeast Asian countries, in pursuit of survival and national development, left with no choice but bandwagoning in response to the rise of China. However, it is equally important to critically review these theories and explore comprehensive and alternative understanding of the reality -- is there really no other middle-ground strategies for the weak and less-developed nations to interact with a strong and rich neighbour? This research thus aims to go beyond the common view of prominent status of China in the region and shed light on the resilience and alternative strategies (e.g. hedging, accommodating, soft balancing…) employed by Laos, which is a case long ignored by researchers in the field of study.
Project Start Year: 2017, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Beijing's Hong Kong Policy and Hong Kong Political Elections, 2016-17
1) Reviewing Beijing's Hong Kong policy, especially after the failure of political reform in 2015. 2) Analysis and review of Hong Kong Legislative Council election in 2016 and Chief Executive election in 2017, including the complicated dynamics during the process and the result of these elections.
Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
A Study of Ethnic Economy of Disadvantaged Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: Exploring Experiences in the Process of Social Integration
This study is an exploratory research on a less touched upon dimension of social integration of ethnic minorities, namely the ethnic economy. It aims to understand the experiences of ethnic minority groups in business, and in particular, the significance of ethnic economy in the long-term social integration process of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.
Project Start Year: 2016, Principal Investigator(s): KWOK KIM 郭儉 (LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義 as Collaborator)

 
Social service NGOs and social integration of the South-Asian populations in Hong Kong
Relying on qualitative approach, this project attempts to explore the formulation and implementation of social integration policies toward South Asian ethnic groups in Hong Kong, focusing on the perspective of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as the implementing agents of the policies’ social service aspects. Different types of delivery model exist among NGOs that provide services to ethnic minority groups will be explored.
Project Start Year: 2015, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Empowerment Through Business: South Asian Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong
This study aims to explore the integration of South Asian ethnic minorities through their self-employment or petit entrepreneurship. It will highlight both the empowering and disempowering effects of their self-employment in Hong Kong. Besides, it will make suggestions on how to eliminate structural barriers for building a more inclusive multicultural society.
Project Start Year: 2014, Principal Investigator(s): Kwok, Kim (LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義 as Co-Investigator)

 
Political Participation of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong: Situation and Difficulties
The study will try to explore the major form and approach of Hong Kong ethnic minorities’ political participation, activeness/inactiveness of their participation, and to explain the factors caused their participatory pattern. A concise comparison between the current situation and the one during the pre-1997 age will be explored too. A range of political participation activities will be examined and reviewed, with special focus on election, party politics and social movement.
Project Start Year: 2014, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Financial crisis and social protection for labors: the dilemma of Hong Kong
This project attempts to scrutinise how globalisation, especially financial globalisation, generates economic insecurity, and what roles social policy can play in protecting labor against the insecurity.
Project Start Year: 2013, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
On the margins or in the line? Comparing the political-cultural re-presentation at the non-major museums in Hong Kong, Macau and Taipei
Extending the examination of the thesis “museums as soft power mechanism to reinvent/re-narrate the past to define, celebrate, or serve the political functions at the present” to the non-major museums in Hong Kong and Macau after handover to China, and Taipei after democratization, to comparatively investigate the complexity of Chinese neo-nationalism under different political history and dynamics.
Project Start Year: 2012, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
A Study of Hong Kong Political System Reform in 2010
1/ The political actors' thinking during the process of political system reform in 2010; 2/ The political landscape of Hong Kong after the political system reform in 2010; 3/ The political system reform process in international perspective, and its impact to the cross Taiwan straits relations.
Project Start Year: 2011, Principal Investigator(s): (LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義 as Co-Investigator)

 
Different forces of nationalism in greater China cities: Comparing the political re-presentation in history museums at Hong Kong, Macau and Taipei
Museum may help to reshape the image of the city and foster citizenship and national identity, for example National Museum of History in Taipei city has a clear social mission on national education. Colonial states used history museums to legitimize their rule by displaying their version of their subjects’ past, such political functions inherited by independent post-colonial states as they forge nation-states and national identities – What about the post-colonial cities without independence? What makes Hong Kong and Macau so interesting to be investigated and compared is that both cities were colonies of imperialism for centuries and handover to Chinese sovereignty in late 1990s under the political principle of “one-country-two systems”. While developments at the Hong Kong Museum since the handover bear witness to a crucial new role in attempts to promote a state-centered patriotism, Macau Museum displays the city as a dynamic, pluralistic meeting point of “East-meets-West”. Creating the sense of Chinese nationalism and “the end of national humiliation” over modern China mainly rely on the exhibits in Hong Kong Museum, but Macau Museum shoulders the diplomatic function of nurturing friendship with western Europe and Portuguese-language countries. In contrast, Taiwan is experiencing a different practice of the building of national identity and citizenship. “Nationalism” is an important issue for Taiwanese. They try to build up a conscious of nation-state, which is a more traditional form of nationalism. For the National Museum of History in Taipei, it works on emphasizing the role and uniqueness of Taiwan in Chinese history and culture. It claims as “an open field for interpreting the history of our nation (Taiwan).” As these museums unfold, they provide a clearer picture of the need and the opportunity to recreate and/or reinvent the past to define, celebrate, or serve the present.
Project Start Year: 2011, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
City Imagineering of Hong Kong: Place Making and Struggle between Globalness and Local Identity
In Chief Executive Policy Address 2007, the Financial Secretary is assigned to formulate strategies to revitalize ‘Brand Hong Kong’ and step up publicity efforts highlighting HK as Asia’s world city. HK people’s ‘core values’ will be re-searched, re-engineered, and re-vitalized. In fact, HK has experienced immense challenges from globalization recently. She needs serious repositioning and creates a new city identity in order to survive against three serious challenges. First, the world economy is characterized by the increasingly intense competition among different city-regions, whereby cities such as Hong Kong have to struggle between their globalness and their local identity. Second, creating a global character necessitates a transformation and reconfiguration of the existing places so as to make them more attractive to foreign investment and visitors. Third, as a corollary of the above two currents, reinventing a global city through crafting a new city identity and place making inevitably alienates some local groups and invites some sort of disagreements/resistances. In order to alleviate the problems, effective governance requires a strategic plan, which includes proper visioning or imagineering that combined city making and place making so as to attain both global competitiveness and local approval. In this proposed qualitative research, we intend to examine the imagineering efforts of the Government in response to the above three challenges, including their understanding to the challenges, their strategic ways to tackle the challenges, and the outcome of their strategies.
Project Start Year: 2010, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Mini-Encyclopedia of Liberal Studies Book Series -- Knowledge Transfer Fund 2009/10
In response to the keen demand for quality reference of knowledge in liberal studies in recent years, the target readers of the book series are not only the secondary school teachers and students under the NSS curriculum, but also the general public in the community who are interested in liberal studies knowledge. It is a proactive kind of knowledge transfer from academia to community public for the purpose of continuing learning, while interest of school teachers and students (NSS and tertiary) will be addressed. Under the series, at least four new volumes and one revised volume are planned to publish by Fall 2010. They are 80 Keywords of Global Issues; 60 Keywords of Social Ethics; 80 Keywords of Today Hong Kong: Society and Culture; 80 Keywords of Hong Kong Commerce and Economy; and 84 Keywords of Contemporary China (revised edition).
Project Start Year: 2010, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Disadvantaged Citizenship in Digital Age: Comparing Digital Divide among School Students in Hong Kong and Taipei
This study attempts to examine the extent of the governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), schools, business sectors promote digital citizenship in the information age among school students from poor families in Hong Kong and Taipei.
Project Start Year: 2010, Principal Investigator(s): LAU KA WAI, MAGGIE 劉嘉慧 (LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義 as Co-Investigator)

 
Socio-Spatial Embeddings of Economic Actions: South Asian Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong
As globalization intensifies, international migration becomes a salient phenomenon. Although the ethnic minority population in Hong Kong (HK) is relatively small, as an Asian world city, the foreign-born population has increased rapidly. Despite international and domestic complaints, the HK Government denied the existence of racial discrimination. Until the 2001 Census, the Government did not systematically collect information about ethnic minorities. It was during the 2008-2009 Budget Speech that the Government admitted for the first time the disadvantaged position of the ethnic minorities (EMs). According to the Financial Secretary, financial resources will be maneuvered to help them integrate into the community to resolve their problem of “lack of social networks.”
It is doubtful whether the limited efforts could help HK’s EMs. The EMs are quite diverse in terms of citizenship, culture, socioeconomic status, clustering of residence, education, and skills. Without the proper understanding of their ethnic economies and the various strategies that different ethnic groups deal with their socio-economic daily lives within the Chinese-dominated society, the Government may reinforce the existing institutional biases against them, failing to think beyond assimilationism.
There are some studies about the conditions of EMs in Hong Kong, but none of them directly examine HK’s ethnic economies. Many of them focus on racial discrimination, which are heavily inclined to victimize the EMs, hence denying them the ability and possibility to deal with socioeconomic problems by themselves. The proposed study aims to understand the economic actions of South Asian minorities in HK, through the theoretical perspective that emphasizes on their embeddings within social relationship and social institutions. Specifically, their economic actions is determined by the accumulation of human, financial, and social capitals. The accumulation processes are embedded within the ethnic economy, which is spatially and socially embedded in various local communities. Three structural factors, that is, government policy, societal reception, and co-ethnic community, together with two socio-spatial factors, that is, residential pattern and socio-demographic composition of the neighborhood, affect the forms of ethnic economy.
Qualitative research methods, that is, focus group interviews, field investigation and
semi-participant observation, co-ethnic media analysis, and in-depth case studies, will mainly be
employed to collect relevant data. The proposed study will figure out:
1. the forms and constructions of South Asian ethnic economy in HK communities;
2. how the three structural factors and two socio-spatial factors affect the forms and constructions of
these ethnic economies;
3. the economic actions of HK South Asians perform in these ethnic economies;
4. how the accumulation of human, financial and social capitals shape these economic actions.
These findings will not only inform the policymakers on the ways to formulate appropriate policies on
what the Chief Executive in his 2007 Policy Address stated as “promoting social harmony by helping
people to help themselves” and South Asians’ problem of “lack of social network” according to the
Financial Secretary, but also fill the theoretical and empirical gaps on a small-sized ethnic economy and
community with advanced Asian/Chinese societies.
Project Start Year: 2010, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Survey on School Students’ Needs and Utilizations on Internet Applications
Even though Hong Kong has achieved internet penetration rate of 70.9% in year end of 2008 and all schools are connected to the internet, the gap between the Information Communication Technology (ICT) “have” and “have- nots” is still large and it is widening in Hong Kong. For education, as the implementation of education reform came into effect, it is not difficult to understand that learning through internet applications becomes an important channel and even the basic need for school students. However, those low-income family school students were difficult to access internet for learning and completing digital school assignments because of the reason of poverty. This will concededly broaden the digital divide among school students.
Funded by Oxfam Hong Kong, this research mainly consists of two parts. For the quantitative part, self-administered and structured questionnaires will be distributed to the primary and secondary students; and for the qualitative part, individual interviews with school teachers who can share information related to usage of ICT in school teaching and learning and school facilities enabling students’ learning will be conducted.
Project Start Year: 2009, Principal Investigator(s): LAU KA WAI, MAGGIE 劉嘉慧 (LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義 as Co-Investigator)

 
From refugee camp, international relief community to new metropolis – Preservation of Tseung Kwan O’s Ethnography
Funded by Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, this project aims at mounting an ethnographical record of Tseung Kwan O district, from its history as one of the major political refugee camps in East Asia, an international relief community, to becoming a new metropolis in this Asia World City. Such a case study is also a contemporary history representation of HK in socio-political aspect.
Project Start Year: 2009, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Comparing the Political Representation of Museums in Hong Kong and Macau after Handover to China
Modern states have long used museums to foster citizenship and national identity. Colonial states used history museums to legitimize their rule by displaying their version of their subjects’ past, such political functions inherited by independent post-colonial states as they forge nation-states and national identities – what about the post-colonial cities with independence? What makes Hong Kong and Macau so interesting to be investigated and compared is that both cities were colonies of European imperialism for centuries and handover to Chinese sovereignty in late 1990s under the political principle of “One-country-two systems”. While developments at the Hong Kong Museum since the handover bear witness to a crucial new role in attempts to promote a state-centered patriotism, Macau Museum displays the city as a dynamic, pluralistic meeting point of “East-meets-West”. Creating the sense of Chinese nationalism and “the end of national humiliation” over modern China mainly rely on the exhibits in Hong Kong Museum, but Macau Museum shoulders the diplomatic function of nurturing friendship with western Europe and Portuguese-language countries. As these museums unfold, they provide a clearer picture of the need and the opportunity to recreate and/or reinvent the past to define, celebrate, or serve the present.
Project Start Year: 2009, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Critical Review of Career Counseling in On-the-Job Training: Case Study of Ywets
Youth Work Experience and Training Scheme (Ywets) launched in 2002, until today, still the major effort of the Labor Department to bridge the school education and career path of youths, especially those who are less successful in schooling. It aims to “enhance the employability of young people, including work experience and job skills, and brighten their employment prospects, through the provision of on-the-job training.” The Scheme is divided into two major parts, i.e. induction course and on-the-job training (OJT) through work placement for the participants. Career counseling, provided by registered social workers, is one of the vital components of the work placement. However, more and more researches query counseling debriefing is not only largely ineffective but may also have long-term adverse effect on “weak”, especially in the clientele of young ones. The research aims at critically review the function and significance of career counseling which built-in the OJT of the Scheme, questions if career counseling generating very limited contribution to the enhancement of their employability, or even undermining the effectiveness the OJT by the work placement for the participants. OJT is emerging to be an important field of studies in education.
Project Start Year: 2008, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Japan in Hong Kong, Hong Kong in Japan: The Inter-relation and Cross Cultural Movement of Image and Ideas between Manga and Hong Kong Comic since 1990s
Manga is one of the biggest sectors in popular cultural industry of Japan, and so is comic in Hong Kong. The project to be proposed aims at investigating the societal image and ideas implanted in the prevailing comics in each other. As two of the most active popular cultural commodities producers and consumers in East Asia, the inter-cultural exchange and transformation, and mutual influence between Japan and Hong Kong are very phenomenal. To study the inter-relation of popular cultures between them, and its implications, are crucial to the further understanding on the contemporary intra-Asian cultural exchange and development.
Project Start Year: 2008, Principal Investigator(s): LAW, Kam Yee 羅金義

 
Strategies of Sustainable Livelihood against Racism and Social Exclusion: South & Southeast Asian Ethnic Minorities and Chinese New Immigrants in Post-colonial Hong Kong
The main objective of our proposed study is to examine the extent of social exclusion and discrimination of Hong Kong ethnic minorities and Chinese new immigrants. Through employing the Sustainable Livelihoods approach which was developed by the Department for International Development (DFID) of UK, we will explore the ways that Hong Kong ethnic minorities and Chinese new immigrants deal with their everyday life difficulties. Furthermore, by employing the theoretical perspectives of colonialism and sinicization, our study also attempts to examine and explain the socio-political mechanisms that lead to South & Southeast Asian ethnic minorities and Chinese new immigrants in Hong Kong being socially excluded and discriminated. Policies and measures are expected to be developed from these analyses in order to enhance the city’s multicultural citizenship for the well being of different ehthnicites.
Project Start Year: 2008, Principal Investigator(s): LAW Kam Yee

 
Japanese Anime and Manga in Liberal Studies Education: An Exploratory Study of 'Why and Why not' in Japan versus Hong Kong
The high value of Japanese anime (cartoon) and manga (comic) in teaching and learning is clearly recognized in Japan, including subjects related to liberal studies. Through examining the ideas, images, symbols, languages, beliefs and rituals represented in anime and manga, the proposed project aims at explaining why and how the knowledge and learning of Japanese students in liberal studies could be constructed and enhanced effectively. Although cartoon and comic is one of the most popular entertainments of Hong Kong teenagers, and Japanese products occupied the largest share in the market, anime and manga is less adopted by local schools in teaching and learning of liberal studies. Compare and contrast to the experience in Japan, the second aim of the proposed project is to explain why the success in Japan not happens in today’s Hong Kong.
Project Start Year: 2008, Principal Investigator(s): LAW Kam Yee

 
The Essence of Politics: A Pilot Study of the Optimum Approach and Form of Representation for General Education and Citizenship Education Purpose
To explore the optimum approach and form of representation to write a single volume of book The Essence of Politics, a book for general education and citizenship education purpose. Features to be explored are: - Concise and precise writing with rich interest of knowledge; - Local concerns and experiences as examples for illustration purpose; - Pluraalistic forms of representation and supplementation to enhance the interest and comprehension of the readers; Depth and breadth of a book at introductory level for wider readership with general education and citizenship purpose.
Project Start Year: 2008, Principal Investigator(s): LAW Kam Yee

 
Prizes and awards
Excellent Paper Award, The Institute of Research Engineers and Scientists, Dublin, June 2018
The IRES Excellent Paper Award for the paper entitled "China-Laotian Relations: the Challenges of China under the 'Belt & Road Initiative'" at the International Conference on Economics & Social Sciences held in Dublin, Ireland on 1st - 2nd June 2018.
Date of receipt: 2/6/2018, Conferred by: The Institute of Research Engineers and Scientists
 
Institutional Nominee, UGC Teaching Award 2014

Date of receipt: /5/2014, Conferred by: University Grant Council
 
President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching, HKIEd 2014

Date of receipt: 1/4/2014, Conferred by: The Hong Kong Institute of Education
 
Certificate of Merit -- Excellence in Teaching Award 2010-11, FLASS at HKIEd

Date of receipt: /5/2011, Conferred by: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
 
Distinguished Paper Award, The Chinese Higher Education Institution Journal Research Society
Distinguished Paper Award (First Class) for "The Role of Chinese Social Sciences Journals in Hong Kong at the Historical Watershed", paper presented in the Third Conference of Young Editors of the Chinese College & University Journal (Humanities & Social Sciences) Research Society, Fuzhou, China, May 1998. (written in Chinese)
Date of receipt: /5/1998, Conferred by: The Chinese Higher Education Institution Journal (Humanities & Social Sciences) Research Society